Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.
63. South Wind
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With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow,
Or with blackbirds in a green, sun-glinted thicket?
Your ruffian haste shook the young, blossoming orchards;
You clapped rude hands, hallooing round the chimney,
And white your pennons streamed along the river.
Blustering with gentle flowers; but I forgave you
When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn.